{"id":7779,"date":"2023-10-29T14:44:41","date_gmt":"2023-10-29T12:44:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.adssc.org\/en\/?p=7779"},"modified":"2023-11-07T14:23:39","modified_gmt":"2023-11-07T12:23:39","slug":"from-where-did-the-romans-breach-into-masada","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.adssc.org\/en\/from-where-did-the-romans-breach-into-masada\/","title":{"rendered":"From Where Did the Romans Breach into Masada?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><span class=\"creator-type-label\">Author:<\/span><\/strong> Gideon Hadas<\/p>\n<p><strong>Published in: <\/strong>Jerusalem Journal of Archaeology<\/p>\n<p><strong>More information: <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/jjar.huji.ac.il\/sites\/default\/files\/jjar\/files\/jjar4_art06_hadas_2023-09-06_02_an_opt.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/jjar.huji.ac.il\/sites\/default\/files\/jjar\/files\/jjar4_art06_hadas_2023-09-06_02_an_opt.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Abstract:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>In his book, The War of the Jews, Flavius Josephus describes the Roman conquest of Masada. He reports that the Roman soldiers breached the site\u2019s western wall with a battering ram installed on a siege tower and<br \/>\npositioned at the top of a siege ramp. In this paper, I challenge this narrative and argue that the Romans entered Masada from the south through the Southern Gate.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Author: Gideon Hadas Published in: Jerusalem Journal of Archaeology More information: https:\/\/jjar.huji.ac.il\/sites\/default\/files\/jjar\/files\/jjar4_art06_hadas_2023-09-06_02_an_opt.pdf Abstract: In his book, The War of the Jews, Flavius Josephus describes the Roman conquest of Masada. He reports that the Roman soldiers breached the site\u2019s western wall with a battering ram installed on a siege tower and positioned at the top of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7781,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[217],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-7779","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-article"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.adssc.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/Gideon-Hadas-2023-From-Where-the-Romans-1.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.adssc.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7779","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.adssc.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.adssc.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.adssc.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.adssc.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7779"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.adssc.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7779\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7787,"href":"https:\/\/www.adssc.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7779\/revisions\/7787"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.adssc.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7781"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.adssc.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7779"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.adssc.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7779"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.adssc.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7779"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}